US News hailed 2018 as a record-breaking year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity as companies around the world announced deals worth a total of $3.3 trillion in just the first three quarters of...

Irish M&A activity jumped to a 370% increase in 2018 over the previous year posting 163 transactions worth a total of €76 billion according to Mergermarket. 2017, by contrast, saw 151 deals valued at...

According to BizBuySell, an online platform for the sale of businesses, Q3 shows small businesses selling at the highest prices ever with a median price of $249,000, up 10.7% from a similar period in...

According to MoneyWeek, private equity firms have been raising capital at the fastest rate than they’ve managed in over a decade and that they are currently flush with cash and desperately looking for the...

Merrill Corporation have published a white paper on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and its far reaching implications for M&A. It’s a free download (though registration may be required). The GDPR comes into...

Is the film industry likely to shortly lose EIS benefits? As with businesses that use EIS and SEIS funds to invest in assets such as property and machinery? Yes, according to Sapphire Capital Partners...

Decentralised Venture Capital funds? VC 3.0? Techcrunch looks at a new breed of venture capitalists and how they are taking on the more established firms. The core idea is that these small funds work...

According to Bloomberg, pivate equity firms have amassed $963 billion in funds that they are looking to invest. Why has dry powder risen to almost a trillion dollars, where are the investment opportunities and...

Business Brokerage Press publishes the latest of their updates on the “hottest” business sectors. This one covers July 2017. It is compiled from information supplied by the business marketplace, businessesforsale.com and lists the top...

Small business transactions are having a record 2017 according to Bob House, President of BizBuySell (a US based online marketplace listing businesses for sale). Any truth in this or is this another industry insider...

Bruce Hakutizwi of BusinessesForSale.com makes a case for why tax and other changes under the Trump presidency create an ideal opportunity for the sale of your business. The expected reductions in tax, he argues,...

A recent article from Entrepreneur.com entitled “10 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a Business” lists the important questions any buyer should ask a current... The post Around the Web: A Week in Summary appeared first on Business Brokerage Press.

EBITDA is at the same time the most discussed and most maligned measure of business cash flow. Simply put, EBITDA is Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. The problem with EBITDA is that too often analysts or market participants or writers want to think that there is a single measure of cash flow that […]